Tag: phage

I have written about bacteriophages (or simply phages) quite a few times before on this blog. It seems to me that phage research often doesn’t get enough attention. It is somewhat ironic that phages are often overlooked, even though they are the most abundant type of organism on our planet. Phages come in all shapes […]

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Marine tubeworms are sessile organisms found in variety of ocean ecosystems. Among the many different species of tubeworms some are real record breakers. If you ever heard of a tubeworm then you most likely have heard about Riftia pachyptila, usually called the Giant tubeworm, which can reach more than 2m in length and lives near […]

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You know, I sometimes think that animals are just walking colonies of multiple kinds of cells that evolved to live in a symbiotic relationship with one another. Seriously, it is highly unlikely that we would be able to survive without all the viruses and bacteria that live in and on us. We need these little […]